The double look on complex dimension
Abstract: Let’s dissect Equality, which is an ideal and not an ontological principle, to see what we must keep from it: the right to importance, access to knowledge and travel. I explain how the egalitarian ideal tends to vitiate these fundamental principles, particularly in the constitution of expertise in science, confused with scientific research. The … Read more
Abstract: Authors write about people, not for them. Essential nuance and yet misunderstood by editors assisted by ‘sensitivity readers’. A misunderstanding caused by a misconception of the collective? Bram Stoker redacted by Dracula Dracula, hired as Bram Stoker’s sensitive reader, rewrote his vampire classic. How did this author of the Barbarian Ages have the audacity … Read more
Cedric Enjalbert watches teenagers play football, who are soon imitated by a little blond perched at the top of a brick staircase. He thrashes around with his own ball, threatening to tumble under the quiet gaze of his nanny. ” Watch your step ! “, Cédric cannot help but launch, and the nanny to answer: … Read more
You have learned, on the net, to be wary of fake news. If you are clever, you have ended up leaving the groups that operate in cults around such beliefs. Now pay attention to what fuels the fake news: I named the Dunning-Burgers! I take this pun from the Dunning-Kruger effect and the hamburger. The … Read more
A necessary existential shock Children should not be taught philosophy.Because we must already acquire certainties before questioning them.Because it is necessary to build a core identity, to define a personality, before fleshing it out and extending it to all reality.Because we must discover, at some point, that the assurance we have built for ourselves is … Read more
Abstract: Three profiles of activists in the media: The tuber-for-you informs while leaving interpretation free. The whistleblower sounds the alarm to the collective by leaving to the collective the paternity of what to think of it. Finally the wokist imposes on the collective the conduct to be held. Three positions that mark pure solidarity, the … Read more
Invading neurons No doubt you have noticed like me this growing undesirable effect of the popularity of neuroscience: it frequently replaces the classical paradigms of psychology by their opposites, without real experimental demonstration, as if reading functional MRIs taught us the springs of the human personality… Examples flood our journals that have become neuro-psychological. The … Read more
The grading of students is regularly criticized. As a result, this method of evaluation will gradually disappear in favour of controlling the acquisition of knowledge. Can we completely replace one with the other? I will show that the anti-note discourse is blind, obscuring the presence of the social collective. Is the grading reductive? The first … Read more
Abstract: On the occasion of an index published by the French National Education, which shows a growing educational segregation, I show that sociology and philosophy are lost in the description of symptoms without a real diagnostic approach. In question, the weakness of the psychological models of the human hidden behind the citizen. Neuroscience, which vampirizes … Read more
Knowledge, power and networks are the theme of a new sociological western with three timeless stars: the Professor, the Patron and the Quidam. The Professor The Professor likes to encounter information about what she already knows. She seeks to consolidate her knowledge, refine it, make it exhaustive. Such a beautiful building is well protected. Any … Read more